Win.Trojan.Daniel-3 — Office (OLE) malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5968ff62c411b4cd…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE)

14.0 KB Created: 1997-02-19 15:51:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word for Windows 95 First seen: 2012-06-14
MD5: 69f6a6939dad5e4e9c434c262766798e SHA-1: 33132dbdd8d0f3af56b1756a6d68a393cb971bb2 SHA-256: 5968ff62c411b4cd58c501fdc0030637ebcd31d9cfb2d5bda5da641d0ebdf443
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Daniel-3 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.005 Visual Basic

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Win.Trojan.Daniel-3. It contains legacy WordBasic auto-exec markers like 'AutoOpen', indicating it's designed to run macros automatically upon opening. The document body text suggests a lure, warning the user about potential infection and claiming to be an authorized user, likely to encourage macro execution.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Daniel-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Daniel-3
  • Legacy WordBasic auto-exec macro marker medium OLE_LEGACY_WORDBASIC_AUTOEXEC
    OLE Word document contains a legacy WordBasic auto-execution marker such as AutoOpen, but no modern VBA project was recovered and no stronger macro-virus family marker was present. This is analyst-facing evidence for old Word macro execution surface, not a downloader or parser-CVE attribution by itself.